Artfag #14
(Best balaclava that I could find for them.)
That's a pipiclava!
It looks like it's made out of Phentex 'yarn' for that extra special feeling against your skin.
all the hip militants are going to be wearing pipiclavas
I hope L.M. will be wearing her pipiclava when she becomes the GGC.
Anyway Pippi is suppposed to have two Ps in the middle (my bad). So technically, L.M. will be wearing her pippiclava!
Thank you, j, for noting my Governor General aspirations. The 'Governor' part would be fun with all the Royal Tea Parties, but I'm much more excited about putting new emphasis on the 'General' part of the title.
And that, of course, segues quite neatly into current discussions by military analysts on the effectiveness of the pippiclava as a weapon of deterrence, to be employed by a powerful state or as a weapon of choice for a more insurgent style of guerrilla combat. One thing they do all agree on is that the pippiclava fundamentally shifts expectations and behaviours on all sides of a conflict.
A very good example of the pippiclava's strategic use is that, in multiple editions, its toxic effects can threaten catastrophic damage on an enemy force, but intelligence specialists like Stratfor provide an argument against its unlimited use: "Pippiclavas have not been used by Ukrainian-Swedish forces since World War II ~ in spite of many apparent opportunities to do so ~ because, as a weapon, the utility is more apparent than real. Possession of Pippiclavas can help guarantee regime survival, but not, by itself, military success." That may be, but I would propose that the pippiclava could make for a very effective counter-insurgency weapon on behalf of a state player. For example, if artfag.ca launched an attack on this great country all dressed up in their grey balaclavas, (fetchingly accessorised with pink sunglasses), the limited use of pippiclavas by special ops forces, such as Joint Task Force 2, Canada's Secret Commandos (shown below pollinating Canadian gardens) could result in a battlefield advantage by charmingly disarming insurgent forces.
(I really really want the GGC job, and as the Queen's representative, I would have the power to compel Sally to wear a pippiclava)
Hahahaha!
The Toronto Star today had a wire clipping today about a nudist barred from Quebec beaches. An annoyed resident said he was not completely naked, he had a penis sock on. Could this be a pipiclava?
gee ...hhmmm ... I was really confident that I had thought this strategy out. ...not so much anymore....hhhmmm ...obvious shift in focus ...might alter the political decision-making of our targets ...there are several possible explanations for this but many questions remain ...will a government's counterterrorism efforts be sufficiently robust as to allow them to penetrate ...thinking ....thinking.
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Artfag #14
(Best balaclava that I could find for them.)
- L.M. 8-15-2006 8:24 am
That's a pipiclava!
- J@simpleposie (guest) 8-15-2006 5:55 pm
It looks like it's made out of Phentex 'yarn' for that extra special feeling against your skin.
- L.M. 8-15-2006 8:18 pm
all the hip militants are going to be wearing pipiclavas
- mark 8-15-2006 10:15 pm
I hope L.M. will be wearing her pipiclava when she becomes the GGC.
- J@simpleposie (guest) 8-15-2006 11:53 pm
Anyway Pippi is suppposed to have two Ps in the middle (my bad). So technically, L.M. will be wearing her pippiclava!
- J@simpleposie (guest) 8-16-2006 12:01 am
Thank you, j, for noting my Governor General aspirations. The 'Governor' part would be fun with all the Royal Tea Parties, but I'm much more excited about putting new emphasis on the 'General' part of the title.
That may be, but I would propose that the pippiclava could make for a very effective counter-insurgency weapon on behalf of a state player. For example, if artfag.ca launched an attack on this great country all dressed up in their grey balaclavas, (fetchingly accessorised with pink sunglasses), the limited use of pippiclavas by special ops forces, such as Joint Task Force 2, Canada's Secret Commandos (shown below pollinating Canadian gardens) could result in a battlefield advantage by charmingly disarming insurgent forces.And that, of course, segues quite neatly into current discussions by military analysts on the effectiveness of the pippiclava as a weapon of deterrence, to be employed by a powerful state or as a weapon of choice for a more insurgent style of guerrilla combat. One thing they do all agree on is that the pippiclava fundamentally shifts expectations and behaviours on all sides of a conflict.
A very good example of the pippiclava's strategic use is that, in multiple editions, its toxic effects can threaten catastrophic damage on an enemy force, but intelligence specialists like Stratfor provide an argument against its unlimited use:
(I really really want the GGC job, and as the Queen's representative, I would have the power to compel Sally to wear a pippiclava)
- L.M. 8-16-2006 1:23 am
Hahahaha!
- J@simpleposie (guest) 8-16-2006 1:34 am
The Toronto Star today had a wire clipping today about a nudist barred from Quebec beaches. An annoyed resident said he was not completely naked, he had a penis sock on. Could this be a pipiclava?
- galenagalaxian 8-16-2006 6:54 am
gee ...hhmmm ... I was really confident that I had thought this strategy out. ...not so much anymore....hhhmmm ...obvious shift in focus ...might alter the political decision-making of our targets ...there are several possible explanations for this but many questions remain ...will a government's counterterrorism efforts be sufficiently robust as to allow them to penetrate ...thinking ....thinking.
- L.M. 8-16-2006 12:04 pm